Clarke, Edward Daniel, a celebrated English traveller, born in Sussex; visited Scandinavia, Russia, Circassia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Greece; brought home 100 MSS. to enrich the library of Cambridge, the colossal statue of the Eleusinian Ceres, and the sarcophagus of Alexander, now in the British Museum; his “Travels” were published in six volumes (1769‒1822).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Clarke, Dr. Samuel * Clarke, Henri